http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/382595-globalization-helps-preserve-endangered-languages/
Don Osborn
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From: Richard Wordingham
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To: 'Unicode List'
Subject: Re: Language Death
Sent: Dec 12, 2013 4:24 AM
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:47:46 +0
al access to electronic resources.
Does this really have much effect on the vitality of languages?
Language death becomes a possibility when a community is bilingual. If
either language can be written, then makeshifts will work for the other
if people really want to use it.
As to the Internet, what hap
Languages don't die, Mark. What happens is that a large linguistic
community gobbles up (cannibalizes) a smaller linguistic community.
Nothing to do with the nature of the language, in either case. Unicode
can do a lot to slow down this process, by facilitating the registration
of characters ne
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0077056
with a popular article at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/12/04/how-the-internet-is-killing-the-worlds-languages/
The source article was interesting, although I'd take issue with some of
their methodology.
> From: Marco Cimarosti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Well, one wonders: could that president's madness possibly hide some
> ingenuity?
>
Not really, I suspect. Unlike the situations you describe, American
foreign language training seems by and large to have the focus that studen
Well, one wonders: could that president's madness possibly hide some
ingenuity?
Also here in Europe (well, in Italy, I can't speak about other countries) a
faculty of languages is the last place where you hope to learn a foreign
language.
Most language departments here simply don't consider teac
University
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Subject: Off topic: language death in the US
Sigh.
http://www.chronicle.com/free/v47/i26/26a01401.htm
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Sigh.
http://www.chronicle.com/free/v47/i26/26a01401.htm
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